He’d spent the entire morning trying to get a hold of his agent. Now, finally, he had a moment to relax and read a new book. The book, however, was in a terrible state. The spine had a massive crack, and the pages were filled with underlinings and notes. His hand tightened into a fist. He had paid good money for this. As he went to find the first page, a letter fell out.

It was a love letter. A flowery, syrupy love letter. He didn’t want to read about love. He just wanted to escape into a good story. He felt a flush of heat rise in his cheeks, and he took a deep, angry breath. He crumpled the letter and threw it across the room.

Emotion: irritated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.86 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion irritated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 irritated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the irritated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the irritated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.370
S0.282
P0.264
😠0.248
aggravated0.233
Suppressed:
own-0.300
joyful-0.211
joyous-0.207
खोले-0.206
newfound-0.205